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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: tom@opengridcomputing.com, rdreier@cisco.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: What is RDMA
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:29:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060724.152925.85821176.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060707081131.GA2991@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:11:31 +1000

> 5) RDMA over TCP on the receive side is offloaded into the NIC.  This
>    allows the NIC to directly place data into the application's buffer.  
> 
>    We're starting to have a little bit of a problem because it means that
>    part of the incoming IP traffic is now being directly processed by the
>    NIC, with no input from the Linux TCP/IP stack.
> 
>    However, as long as the connection establishment/acks are still
>    controlled/seen by Linux we can probably live with it.

As I have detailed in other emails, even if you get the connection
establishment packets processed by netfilter, you can end up with
a non-working connection because NAT can want to transform all of
the established state packets in the same way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-28  7:07 RDMA will be reverted David Miller
2006-06-28  7:41 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-28 14:56 ` Tom Tucker
2006-06-28 15:01 ` Steve Wise
2006-06-29 16:54 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-29 17:32   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-29 17:35     ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-29 17:40       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-29 19:46   ` David Miller
2006-06-29 20:11     ` Tom Tucker
2006-06-29 20:16       ` Tom Tucker
2006-06-29 20:19       ` David Miller
2006-06-29 20:47         ` Tom Tucker
2006-06-29 20:53           ` David Miller
2006-06-29 21:28             ` Tom Tucker
2006-06-29 21:25         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-29 20:42       ` James Morris
2006-06-30 20:51     ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-30 21:16       ` David Miller
2006-06-30 23:01         ` Tom Tucker
2006-07-01 14:26           ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-04 18:34             ` Andy Gay
2006-07-04 20:47               ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-04 22:22                 ` Andy Gay
2006-07-04 23:01                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-04 23:48                     ` Andy Gay
2006-07-05  0:04                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-04 20:34             ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-24 22:06               ` David Miller
2006-07-24 23:10                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-24 23:22                   ` David Miller
2006-07-25  0:02                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-25  0:29                       ` Rick Jones
2006-07-25  0:45                         ` David Miller
2006-07-25  0:55                           ` Rick Jones
2006-07-25  1:04                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-25  1:21                             ` David Miller
2006-07-25 16:29                               ` Rick Jones
2006-07-25 16:32                                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-25  1:03                           ` Rick Jones
2006-07-25  1:42                         ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-25  5:51                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-25  6:48                   ` David Miller
2006-07-25  6:59                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-25  7:33                       ` David Miller
2006-07-25  7:42                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-05 17:09             ` Tom Tucker
2006-07-05 17:50               ` Steve Wise
2006-07-24 22:25                 ` David Miller
2006-07-24 22:47                   ` Caitlin Bestler
2006-07-24 22:23               ` David Miller
2006-07-24 22:57                 ` Caitlin Bestler
2006-07-01 21:45           ` David Miller
2006-07-04 20:34             ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-05 18:27               ` David Miller
2006-07-05 20:29                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-06  3:03                   ` David Miller
2006-07-06  5:25                     ` Tom Tucker
2006-07-06 14:08                       ` Herbert Xu
2006-07-06 17:36                         ` Tom Tucker
2006-07-07  0:03                           ` Herbert Xu
2006-07-07  0:32                             ` Tom Tucker
2006-07-07  6:53                       ` David Miller
2006-07-07  8:11                         ` What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted) Herbert Xu
2006-07-07 18:25                           ` Steve Wise
2006-07-11  8:17                             ` Herbert Xu
2006-07-11 13:27                               ` Steve Wise
2006-07-24 22:29                           ` David Miller [this message]
2006-07-24 22:34                             ` What is RDMA Rick Jones
2006-07-24 22:39                               ` David Miller
2006-07-24 22:49                               ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-07 13:29                         ` RDMA will be reverted Tom Tucker

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